US unemployment statistics climbed to a 15 year high in November, with the travel and entertainment sectors taking a major beating due to lay-offs, Associated Press reported this week.
The news agency Associated Press reported this week that the American Gaming Association – a trade group comprised of the major US land casino owners – spent $400 000 over the third quarter of 2008 to lobby for legislation that included work regarding regulated online gambling in the USA.
A group of investors with experience in land based gambling out of Margarita Island, Venezuela is gearing up to enter the online casino and bingo arena with Bingo Las Vegas Casino.com, powered by Sweden’s Net Entertainment and licensed through the Netherlands Antilles.
The New South Wales government in Australia has been urged to seriously consider a restrained form of licensed and regulated online gambling as a step forward in keeping up with gambling trends, reports the Sydney Morning Herald this week. The newspaper was reporting on suggestions made to the NSW leaders by Alan Cameron, a former …
Online blackjack players will be able to play up to 4 hands at a time on the latest game release from Internet gambling software provider Top Game – Multi Hand Blackjack. Among the first to install the new game is Rome Casino.com, which accepts US players.
Up to 14 professional baseball players in South Korea are being investigated by prosecutors on allegations of illegal online wagering involved “tens of millions” of the local currency, the won, reports the Korea Times.
The Rank Group’s interactive operation under the Blue Square.com brand has a new managing director. The online gambling company announced this week that Mark Jones (44) has accepted the position.
The popular publication Techdirt weighed in on the regulation of online gambling in the USA this week, calling the American Gaming Association’s support for a study of online gambling “about as wishy-washy as could be” in an editorial.
In a move that could make online access to gambling and other forbidden practices from cyber cafes more difficult, authorities in the southern Chinese city of Nanchang now require that Internet cafes install Chinese-developed operating systems, raising new concerns over cyber-snooping by authorities, reports Associated Press.
Cantor Gaming’s sudden closure of its Cantor Casino, Cantor Poker and Red Lounge online gambling websites, and the imprecise announcement that accompanied it, prompted us to request clarification from the firm on a number of points.
NYX Interactive-powered Mamamia Bingo.com is taking the next step and launching an Internet casino offering with its provider, the company announced this week. NYX has recently signed several casino deals and has already announced that it is investing heavily in product development to strengthen its position and widen its gambling software offering.
The Miami Herald reports that a bid by an ex-beauty queen to claim a half share of her husband’s Florida Lottery $600 000 syndicate win was turned away this week by Dade Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Bailey with the suggestion that a divorce court might be a better venue to resolve the dispute.
The Casino Affiliate Programs.com new video news and information program CAP TV, announced two weeks ago has achieved its first screening deadline and is now available for viewing over the internet at http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com/captv/.
Bodog-powered online casinos like Lucky18, which offer online gambling to the US market, are currently making marketing capital out of the progressive slots game Jackpot Piñata, which has breached the $1 million barrier to become one of the largest jackpots currently available to American players.
The large European social networking website Netlog, has partnered up with Swedish games supplier Jadestone to offer new multiplayer games to the Netlog online community.
Two California gamblers who sued the Google and Yahoo search engines in 2004 for carrying gambling ads after they lost $100 000 at the tables were defeated in a California court last week.
A US land-based casino that accidentally sent vouchers to more people than than it could afford to has been forced to ask thousands of customers to give it a break, reports Associated Press.
The latest annual National Annenburg Survey of Youth shows that the incidence of youthful Internet gamblers remains at the low levels experienced following last year’s “precipitous decline.” First conducted in 2002, the annual study is frequently used as a reference by US politicians attacking online gambling, such as Republican Representative Spencer Bachus.
The recently launched live gambling over the Internet firm Visionary iGaming had signed its first licensee – Celtic Casino.com, which will open its virtual doors to the public in February 2009.
Sweden’s Jadestone Networks has made another major partnership deal for its DiceArena multiplayer games network, signing up the Vienna listed online gambling giant Bwin Interactive barely two weeks after clinching a deal with Gala Coral. Bwin will join the network early in the new year, a spokesman said this week.
Ex-Jamba, Fox Mobile and Vodafone exec Lee Fenton has joined the Gamesys management team as Chief Operating Officer, and will oversee the company’s mobile gambling ramp up.
Isle of Man based online gambling software provider Microgaming has released what it claims is the industry’s first ever customisable online slot game, demonstrating groundbreaking technology and innovation with its brand new product “My Slot.”
Network World reports that the US Tennis Association used web filtering software to halt Internet betting access on its website. The Association’s US Open tournament provides network access for the players, guests and media, but this year an extra security step was taken to make sure that access wasn’t too open.
The December 1st meeting of EU member nations, called to discuss a “harmonised” approach to the regulation of online gambling within the trade bloc seems to have stalled on the best way forward, according to a Reuters news report.